Isaac Nassi

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Isaac Nassi

Isaac "Ike" Nassi is an Executive Vice President at SAP AG

SAP AG

SAP Aktiengesellschaft is the largest European software enterprise and the fourth largest in the world, with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany....
. He holds responsibility for SAP Research

SAP Research

SAP Research is the global technology research unit of SAP AG with a network of 13 research centers on five continents. Each center is located in close proximity to an SAP development center or on a university campus....
for the Americas and China and is based out of SAP's Palo Alto location. He is probably best known for creating (with Ben Shneiderman

Ben Shneiderman

Ben Shneiderman is an United States Computer science, and professor for Computer Science at the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park....
) the highly influential Nassi-Shneiderman diagram

Nassi-Shneiderman diagram

A Nassi-Schneiderman diagram is a graphical design representation for structured programming.Developed in 1972 by Isaac Nassi and Ben Shneiderman, these diagrams are also called structograms, as they show a program's structures....
notation. He also helped design the Ada programming language.

Prior to work at SAP, he co-founded the wireless mesh company Firetide

Firetide

Firetide is an early pioneer in the wireless mesh networking industry, focusing on the security and surveillance market. Installations include Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, and Singapore....
and was CTO (chief technology officer) of InfoGear

Infogear

InfoGear Technology Corporation, founded in 1995, was a startup technology and services company focused on the market for Internet appliances....
, before it was acquired by Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is a multinational corporation with more than 66,000 employees and annual revenue of United States dollar39 billion as of 2008....
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Isaac "Ike" Nassi is an Executive Vice President at SAP AG

SAP AG

SAP Aktiengesellschaft is the largest European software enterprise and the fourth largest in the world, with headquarters in Walldorf, Germany....
. He holds responsibility for SAP Research

SAP Research

Ben Shneiderman

Nassi-Shneiderman diagram

Firetide

Infogear

InfoGear Technology Corporation, founded in 1995, was a startup technology and services company focused on the market for Internet appliances....
, before it was acquired by Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is a multinational corporation with more than 66,000 employees and annual revenue of United States dollar39 billion as of 2008....
. After the acquisition, he was the director of engineering at Cisco. He was also a senior vice president at Apple Computer

Apple Computer

Apple Inc., formerly Apple Computer Inc., is an United States multinational corporation which designs and manufactures consumer electronics and software products....
and an early employee at Encore Computer Corporation

Encore Computer

Encore Computer was an early pioneer in the parallel computing market, based in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Although offering a number of system designs beginning in 1985, they were never as well known as other companies in this field such as Pyramid Technology, Alliant Computer Systems, and the most similar systems Sequent Computer Systems a...
.

Nassi is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery

Association for Computing Machinery

The Association for Computing Machinery, or ACM, was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership was approximately 83,000 as of 2007....
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External links

- Ike Nassi's homepage
- Ike Nassi at SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC